Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna, the Malta Heritage Trust, prides itself in having been the first  to pioneer the use of serious re-enactment in Malta. Sometimes persons find it difficult to grasp the difference between serious re-enactment and a 'historic' pageant, and the mixing of one for the other is a misconception that is often repeated . In reality there is little common ground in the approach to the two concepts.

FWA uses re-enactment as a tool by means of which aspects of history are brought to life before the eyes of our visitors. This greatly enhances the visitor's experience, and understanding of our sites. For example, visitors at Fort Rinella will be able to see in a tangible manner what Victorian soldiers wore, what they ate, how they lived, and how they trained.  Dedicated research and study; a no-compromise attitude to faithfulness to the past when it comes to interpretation and reconstruction; and the use of original artefacts, are hallmarks which set the living history interpretation of FWA in a class of its own.